Tidbits and links rounded up about transportation in the past week. These are fun. I promise.

The video above is a very cool photo montage of a train journey in England. Watch it, you’ll see what I mean! Full details on how the video was shot here

You can now get bike directions on Google maps for six Canadian cities, including Vancouver! However, just one caveat: Google used our printed maps to get their base data and it still seems like it needs a bit of fine tuning: it suggested I ride on Kingsway to get to Metrotown, which is of course a road you can ride on, but isn’t necessarily everyone’s first choice when choosing a bike route, especially with Vanness running parallel. Give it a try and see how it works for you though—I’d love to hear your thoughts on the tool.

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The glide video and the subway train yard video led me to this time-lapse video: the Long Island Railroad from Penn Station to Long Beach in 2 minutes. Interestingly, the landscape and railway infrastructure looks a lot like this classic film from the golden age of trains: London to Brighton in 4 Minutes.

(Of course, there are a lot of SkyTrain videos out there as well, but I’ve exhausted my link quota.)

And then you can check out this: an animated map, showing the 24-hour operations of the Long Island Railroad, based on train schedules. (They also have them for operations in New Jersey, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, and Chicago.) Very cool.

#WhatsTheLink

The #WhatsTheLink series is all about what TransLink is responsible for in Metro Vancouver and some little known facts about what we do. TransLink is responsible for transit, but our mandate also includes roads, bridges, cycling and walking paths.